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Queen's Hall (other)
Queen's Hall was a concert hall in London, destroyed in World War II. Queen's Hall may also refer to: Australia * Queen's Hall, Adelaide, South Australia, a former theatre * Queen's Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, a former theatre (1920–1937) United Kingdom * Queen's Hall, Dunoon, Scotland *Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland * Queen's Hall, Hexham, Northumberland, England, now an arts centre *Queens Hall, Leeds Queens Hall was a concert and exhibition venue located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally a tram and then a bus depot and had latterly become a venue hosting events such as the Ideal Home Exhibition and the 1981, 1982, 1988 ..., England (1961–1989) * Queen's Hall, Minehead, Somerset, England {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Hall
The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect Thomas Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principal concert venue. From 1895 until 1941, it was the home of the The Proms, promenade concerts ("The Proms") founded by Robert Newman (impresario), Robert Newman together with Henry Wood. The hall had drab decor and cramped seating but superb acoustics. It became known as the "musical centre of the [British] British Empire, Empire", and several of the leading musicians and composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries performed there, including Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar, Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss. In the 1930s, the hall became the main London base of two new orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. These two ensembles raised the standards of orchestral playing in London to new heights, and the hall's resident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Hall, Adelaide
Grenfell Street () is a major street in the north-east quarter of the Adelaide city centre, South Australia. The street runs west-east from King William Street to East Terrace. Its intersection with Pulteney Street is formed by Hindmarsh Square. On the west side of King William Street, it continues as Currie Street towards West Terrace. Naming Grenfell Street was named after Pascoe St Leger Grenfell, a Cornish businessman and member of the South Australian Church Society. His significant donation of an acre of land on North Terrace was used for the construction of the Holy Trinity Church — one of the first churches built in the city. Grenfell also donated another of country land for the use of the church as glebe lands. This land later became the suburb of Trinity Gardens. Description Grenfell Street runs from King William Street to East Terrace. It is one of the intermediate-width streets of the Adelaide grid, at wide. On the west side of King William Street, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Hall, Melbourne
Queen's Hall was a little theatre in Collins Street, Melbourne, situated between Russell and Swanston streets. It operated from 1920 to 1937, when its building was demolished. History In late 1920 the Melbourne lodge of the Theosophical Society (TS) purchased from the Sir Samuel Gillott estate a property at 181–187 Collins Street, at the rear of which was an old warehouse which, after some modifications, they named Queen's Hall, to be used for Society meetings and by August 1920 were hiring it out to various organisations. One notable user of the hall was J. Beresford Fowler and his "Little Art Theatre" players, presenting modern plays on its "absurdly small" stage 1925 to 1936, when they were obliged to quit due to forthcoming building work. Minnie Hooper's ballet school used the hall for some concerts, and perhaps for classes. The two buildings were demolished in 1937, to be replaced by a five-storey office block for the Theosophical Society, completed in October of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Hall, Dunoon
Queen's Hall is a building in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Standing at 9 Argyll Street, adjacent to Castle Hill, it has been the town's multi-function building since 1958. It was formerly known as the New Pavilion, having replaced the 1905 Dunoon Public Pavilion. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 11 August 1958. It contains three meeting rooms, an activity room and the Olympian Suite, in addition to its large main hall. The main hall has a stage with professional sound and lighting equipment, and has attracted popular acts such as Pink Floyd, Blur, the Saw Doctors, David Gray, Morrissey, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Primal Scream and comedians Kevin Bridges, Bill Bailey and Roy Chubby Brown. In late 2015, the building was closed to enable a major refurbishment, to a design by Malcolm Fraser Architects, but this did not begin until January 2017. Queen's Hall reopened in August 2018. Dunoon Library has shared part of the building's first floor sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
The Queen's Hall is a performance venue in the Southside, Edinburgh, Scotland. The building opened in 1824 as Hope Park Chapel and reopened as the Queen's Hall in 1979. Hope Park Chapel opened as a chapel of ease within the St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, West Kirk parish in 1824. The chapel became a parish church with the name Newington Parish Church in 1834. The congregation supported the creation of a mission church in St Leonard's, Edinburgh, St Leonard's in 1878. The two congregations united to form Newington and St Leonard's Parish Church in 1932. The church was dissolved in 1976 and the building was purchased by the Scottish Philharmonic Society. It was reopened as a performance venue in 1979 by Elizabeth II, after whom the building was renamed. The hall has hosted artists including Nina Simone, Nick Cave, and Adele. In 2018, the hall estimated it welcomed 90,000 visitors across 200 concerts annually. It is the only major venue to host events for all of the Edinburgh Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Hall, Hexham
The Queen's Hall, formerly Hexham Town Hall, is a municipal structure in Beaumont Street, Hexham, Northumberland, England. The structure, which was the headquarters of Hexham Urban District Council and is now an arts centre, is a Grade II listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was a 14th-century moot hall in the Market Place which was originally built as a defensive structure against the Scots and later became a courthouse for county court hearings. The petty session hearings were held in the White Hart Inn in Fore Street. In the mid-19th century, the lord of the manor, Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, proposed the removal of some old tenement buildings just to the east of the remains of the abbey wall. In response a group of local businessmen led by a local solicitor, Charles Head, formed a private company to raise the money to erect a dedicated municipal structure for the town: the old tenement buildings were demolished and a wooded area just to the wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queens Hall, Leeds
Queens Hall was a concert and exhibition venue located in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally a tram and then a bus depot and had latterly become a venue hosting events such as the Ideal Home Exhibition and the 1981, 1982, 1988 and 1989 Great British Beer Festival, flea markets, travelling fairs and concerts. History The building was originally constructed at the turn of the 20th century and was known as Swinegate Tram Depot. The hall was refurbished as a music venue in 1961 and was a popular venue amongst students and the townspeople of Leeds with a capacity for 5,000 people. The very first event to be held there was the Yorkshire Ideal Home & Food Exhibition (5–20 May 1961), sponsored by ''The Yorkshire Post''. Over the years, the Queens Hall had been as a venue for popular music. Motörhead complained about the acoustics, and it was uncomfortably cold in winter, with ice forming on the retained tramlines. As far back as the 1980s there was talk of an aren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
